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title: CORNERSTONE Community
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# CORNERSTONE-Community
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Open-source, license-free silicon photonics prototyping foundry, supplemented by community contributions

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## Getting started


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Dive right in 
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Fork the repository in GitHub
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PDK library
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(Coming soon) View the components and test results

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Guidelines
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View the contribution guidelines

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The documentation is organised into how-to guides, component reference and repository information.
- **How-to guides** demonstrate contribution workflows and metadata preparation
- **Component references** contain design files, use instructions and characterisation results
- **Repository information** contain information regarding the purpose of various files within the repository.

## License

The CORNERSTONE Community repository is licensed with [TAPR Open
Hardware License](https://tapr.org/the-tapr-open-hardware-license/)

## Contact us

[Contact us](mailto:pdk.cornerstone@soton.ac.uk) for questions related
to the your Community submissions, Community repository contents - or
any other issues related to the Community repository.

```{include} contributor-list.md
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```{toctree}
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how-to/index.md
comp_ref/index.md
rep_ref/index.md
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